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Name: Anonymous 2011-09-11 13:02

I went on the Haskell site to take a look at the language and I was blown away by the documentation for new people. There are free books on it, plenty of written tutorials, and even a browser interpreter that teaches you the basics of Haskell by prompting you to type code and then explaining it to you.

This is the first time I've ever seen a language that had a community so willing to try and teach you. Do any other language communities come close to this or is Haskell an anomaly?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 2:24

>>38
wrong.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 4:42

>>39
JVM was designed to run Java, not Lisp
It doesn't matter as long as it works well. And it does! The only thing which is missing is TCO, and chances are high it will be added with the next release of JVM.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 4:56

>>42
The only thing which is missing is TCO

L......ol........

Read SICP if you think TCO isn't the fundamental aspect of all lisp computation. idiot

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 4:57

>>42
chances are high it will be added with the next release of JVM.
source?

AFAIK, TCO cant be implemented with Java at all, cuz Java requires unwind-protect and stack traces.

The only thing which is missing is TCO
Other are continuations.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 6:13

>>44
source?
If I'm not mistaken TCO is a part of Project Lambda http://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/ which is planed to be incorporated in Java 8.

TCO cant be implemented with Java at all
A prototype was implemented here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/

Here is the master thesis from the guy who did it: http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Research/Papers/Schwaighofer09Master/

>>43
TCO is the fundamental aspect of all lisp computation
This is just wrong. The Common Lisp standard doesn't include TCO either.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 7:23

>>45
Project Lambda http://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/
Some research project.

planed to be incorporated in Java 8.
Doubt they will be breaking backward compat for the sake of TCO.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 7:24

>>45
master thesis
Q.E.D.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 7:26

>>46
Some research project.
You have no idea what you are talking about.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 7:42

>>46
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/java-lambda

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 8:55

Reddit quality thread.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-12 15:04

GC is shit.

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